Overview - Zarafa
Date of release

Budget
$10,750,000.00
Revenue
$12,197,574.00
Spoken Languages
- Français
Production companies
Name: France 3 Cinéma
Production country France
Name: Prima Linéa Productions
Production country France
Name: Chaocorp
Production country France
Name: Pathé
Production country France
Name: SCOPE Pictures
Production country Belgium
Overview
Inspired by the true story of the first giraffe to visit France, Zarafa is a sumptuously animated and stirring adventure, and a throwback to a bygone era of hand-drawn animation and epic storytelling set among sweeping CinemaScope vistas of parched desert, wind-swept mountains and open skies. Under the cover of darkness a small boy, Maki, loosens the shackles that bind him and escapes into the desert night. Pursued by slavers across the moon-lit savannah, Maki meets Zarafa, a baby giraffe – and an orphan, just like him – as well as the nomad Hassan, Prince of the Desert. Hassan takes them to Alexandria for an audience with the Pasha of Egypt, who orders him to deliver the exotic animal as a gift to King Charles of France.
Cast
Name: Max Renaudin
Character: Maki (voice)
Popularity: 0.0842
Name: Simon Abkarian
Character: Hassan (voice)
Popularity: 1.0035
Name: Vernon Dobtcheff
Character: Le vieux sage (voice)
Popularity: 1.3974
Name: Roger Dumas
Character: Charles X (voice)
Popularity: 0.5716
Name: Ronit Elkabetz
Character: Bouboulina (voice)
Popularity: 0.4067
Name: Mohamed Fellag
Character: Mahmoud (voice)
Popularity: 0.4622
Name: Déborah François
Character: Zarafa adulte (voice)
Popularity: 0.7913
Name: Thierry Frémont
Character: Moreno (voice)
Popularity: 0.6454